"You can't fix it. You can't make it go away.
I don't know what you're going to do about it,
But I know what I'm going to do about it. I'm just
going to walk away from it. Maybe
A small part of it will die if I'm not around
feeding it anymore."
--Lew Welch

How to tell a story

Thursday, April 14, 2016

No contest

Early on, Clinton is relaxed, bright, confident ... Sanders is rattled, repeated cheap shots, no specific program ... fans are fans, of course, but the contrast in political skill is huge. Sanders' negativity and attack mode are the wrong strategy. He needs A POSITIVE VISION. He is selling out his supporters. He doesn't come off like he could manage a baseball team, let alone the country.

SANDERS IS A DISASTER. I am reminded of the JFK-Nixon debate. Sanders is the squirming, sweating Nixon.

Man, this is too bad. Sanders has tapped something important ... and has accurate notions and good principles ... but is terrible in debate.

Earlier blog (archived)

ENTERTAINMENTS

Career Support

"Charles' impact on Northwest literature and theater over the past twenty-plus years is impressive. As a critic I've followed his work since the early 1980s, and no playwright has had such an important or long-lasting effect on this community's cultural life." --Bob Hicks, Senior Critic (retired), The Oregonian

"During the years we've worked together, I feel Charles was the clearest and most important theatre voice in Oregon." --Steve Smith, Artistic Director (retired), Theatre Workshop

"This play has balls!" -- Anonymous young man, shouting in the dark before curtain call for Country Northwestern.

2006
Finalist, Mystery of the Year (Foreword Magazine), for Dead Body In A Small Room.

2007
Begin making digital films. Deconstructing Sally, perhaps the best of the bunch ("Deconstructing Sally has voice: It’s a good example of how skillful and individualistic democratic filmmaking can be.")

2008Changing Key, a video hyperdrama and lecture-demonstration presented to national hypertext conference.